The present publication "Five Years of Soviet Power" is published by decree of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution. The first seven articles that make up the introductory part of the book belong to N. Baturin, L. Koganovich, T. Sapronov, M. Vladimirsky and K. Egorov. Essays on individual central state institutions are compiled under the guidance and responsibility of the comrades at the head of these institutions. The work on preparing for publication and editing all articles and essays included in this publication was carried out by A. Berdnikov, P. Lebedev-Polyansky, K. Novitsky and F. Svetlov, under the general editorship of A. Yenukidze, T. Sapronov, M. Savelyev and V. Smirnov.